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[MILITARIA]. MONGE (Gaspard). A DESCRIPTION OF THE ART OF MA…
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[MILITARIA]. MONGE (Gaspard). A DESCRIPTION OF THE ART OF MA…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
[MILITARIA]. MONGE (Gaspard). A DESCRIPTION OF THE ART OF MANUFACTURING CANNONS. Paris, Printed by the Committee of Public Safety, Year 2 [1794]. Three works bound together in a single quarto volume in marbled fawn calf, spine with five raised bands and decoration, title label in ivy-green morocco, edges speckled with red (contemporary binding); (2) folios, VIII–231 pp., 4 fold-out tables on bluish laid paper, 60 plates. Small tears at the joints, scuffs and small areas of leather missing. FIRST EDITION. 4 fold-out TABLES and 60 PLATES, often fold-out. [Bound together:] NOTICE TO IRONWORKERS ON THE MANUFACTURE OF STEEL, published by order of the Committee of Public Safety. P., War Department Printing Office, [1793]. (2) ff., 34 pp., (1) blank folio, 5 plates. FIRST EDITION. 5 PLATES – INSTRUCTIONS ON THE ART OF SEPARATING COPPER FROM BELL METAL; published by order of the Committee of Public Safety. P., Committee of Public Safety Press, Year 2 [1794]. 18 pp., 3 pp. of explanations of the plates, 2 plates – “Supplement to the instructions on the art of separating copper [etc.]” : (1) half-title page, (9) pp., (1) half-page of explanatory notes for the 3rd plate, (1) fold-out plate. FIRST EDITION. 3 PLATES.
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